Well I have taken the plunge and retired my much loved TiVo. The old workhorse was still going strong but showing it’s age compared to current PVRs. (well the UK model anyway that has seen no updates in 8 years).
In comes a Humax PVR 9300T which gives me 90% of the same functionality. I’ve been running them side by side since Christmas, and discovered that I just wasn’t wanting to use the TiVo, so its out with the box, and the DVB set top box too – Leaving me with a much slimmer little box with 320Gb of recording space and 2 tuners. And it’s clever with those 2 Tuners. You can do the usual with 2 tuners of record 2 things and watch a third already recorded thing. However there is a trick up the sleeve with the Humax you can record 2 things, and watch a third broadcast thing provided that the channel is also on one of the Muxes being used for recording.
So cool 2 plugs freed up although I can see some of the rats nest of cables now (time for a cleanup methinks).
A downside is no really reliable season passes that just start recording again when a favourite series comes on again. Another missing feature is the thumbs functionality and TiVo’s Suggestions (which I didn’t really use anyway)
The Hummy is a slave to the vaguries of the DVB EPG when it works it works well, and gets the EPG live OTA rather than once a day. An upside is when all the metadata is working well I no longer need to pad BBC and ITV recordings as they just start on time 
, however some of the broadcasters need to pull their fingers out and send sensible EPG data – Virgin 1 are you listening? Terminator – The Sarah Connor Chronicles is a series – set the flaming series link flag – I have to keep remembering to record it every week
The picture quality is better too as the Hummy seems to record the DVB-T stream straight rather than re-encoding the decoded analogue.
Its also greener in standby too powering right down (even the RF passthru) unless there is a recording going on. Another upside is the hummy has a 576p/720p HDMI output for when I get round to upgrading the telly to something Full HD
Another bonus I have found with the hummy is the ability to queue up a playlist of shows to keep the little one amused while we do something. Hats off to whoever designed that feature. They must have kids – it’s just genius.